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Immersion Experience: Denver
WHAT I WISH YOU KNEW
The one where we say what we saw.
What I Wish You Knew
Connell – I wish that people knew that the Tennyson center is not a place that “bad” kids get sent. The kids at Tennyson center are not there because they are the problem. They have such hard lives that it is impossible to blame them for the behaviors they display. I wish that everyone had the opportunity to see each of the kids in their best light, on their best day, to realize how much it takes for them to display that goodness. Maybe this would help people understand why the Tennyson kids act how they do. I also wish that people could take less time to realize that the Tennyson kids aren’t bad, they just do not have the same access to resources that the rest of have.
Noah – I wish people knew that these kids although tough to see all have such good positive parts to them. It was tough to see and draw out the good in each of these kids but after a while you can see there creativity, passion, and humor in each of them. Some seemed tougher than they were when you really got to know them. For me the whole quote don’t judge a book by its cover is so known but not taken so deeply as I have seen here at Tennyson. I have seen and unfortunately judged but seen so much deeper in the class. There are so many kind but sad souls in the class that have been affected by home life that does and should not define them. They take burdens that come out to the world as anger or depression seeing the kids as troubled but not of their own doing. The one thing I hope for people to understand coming out of Tennyson is that each kid has good no matter how deep down in them it is. In the creativity of the art in drawing or writing they have. The small sharing of candy won in games with their peers. The buying of chips for this one girl who comes to school every day with spicy dynamite chips. The shot they take in basketball and the smile they have after. Each of these small instances show the love they have and the good they have in them after this time here. I will go back to school raving about the small successes I saw each child attain.
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